Help us to find OxyContin using pain patients willing to try Marijuana!

MAPS supporters are urged to actively help us recruit subjects for Dr. Abrams National Institute on Drug Abuse-funded study of vaporized marijuana in patients who are using OxyContin for pain. MAPS is supporting this study by paying for travel and lodging for participants who live outside of the San Francisco Bay area.

Supporters can help us by downloading flyers and posting them at facilities such as medical marijuana dispensaries, and pain management centers. We also welcome supporters to promote the study by posting information on blogs and forums.

The study is designed for 24 subjects; 17 subjects have participated and 7 subjects are still needed before the end of the year. If you would like more information about how you can help us recruit patients for this study, please contact rando…@maps.org.

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7 Responses to “Help Turn Rush Limbaugh Types into Pot Heads”

> Help us to find OxyContin using pain patients willing to try > Marijuana!

> MAPS supporters are urged to actively help us recruit subjects for Dr. > Abrams National Institute on Drug Abuse-funded study of vaporized > marijuana in patients who are using OxyContin for pain. MAPS is > supporting this study by paying for travel and lodging for > participants who live outside of the San Francisco Bay area.

> Supporters can help us by downloading flyers and posting them at > facilities such as medical marijuana dispensaries, and pain management > centers. We also welcome supporters to promote the study by posting > information on blogs and forums.

> The study is designed for 24 subjects; 17 subjects have participated > and 7 subjects are still needed before the end of the year. If you > would like more information about how you can help us recruit patients > for this study, please contact rando…@maps.org.

> [Good point. If I recall correctly, back in the 1980s there was a > popular phrase, "No pain ibogaine." Someone back me up on this.]

> (My damn OE didn’t quote right. What’s up with that?)

> That phrase in quotes googles null, but here’s something close fromhttp://www.erowid.org/experiences/exp.php?ID=41522:

> "The pain of withdrawal has ceased to bother me and I began to > concentrate on everything around me" > etc.

> I think ibogaine isn’t just an addiction treatment, it might help petty > dextrohacks like Rush open up to a better universe. Never was addicted > nor used it, just sayin’ from what I pick up.

Rush and his clones are hopeless; there’s too much of a payoff in remaining the mouthpiece for lumpenprole ressentiment. No drug in the world can cure Terminal Assholism.

I think Limbaugh is a major carrier of the Emotional Plague. If that’s too harsh an assessment, then see Colin Wilson on the Right Man syndrome. Robert Anton Wilson once compared Rush’s followers to the followers of a famous German fascist who averred that "the masses are female." Similarly, Rush’s listeners famously call themselves "Dittoheads." To me, the comparison seems tragically apt. "Female" and "Dittoheads," meaning that they need/want to be pushed around/told what to do/what to think, and one of the most potent ways to do that is by telling them that sure, they’re a bunch of losers, but it’s NOT THEIR FAULT: it’s the fault of "liberals", intellectuals, young people and their music, Hollywood, "do-gooders," environmentalists, feminists, the French, brown people, people who consume food and drink that is associated with the educated class, black people, organized labor, Asians, Muslims, ideas from Big City Folk, etc, etc, etc…anyone BUT the Corporate Fascists whose interests Rush defends. Include in there Savage, Hannity, and about 75 other Rush clones on AM radio.

I think I probably see this as a bigger problem than most of you do. And I don’t have many answers. Obviously, getting the Fairness Doctrine back in wd help, but I’m not holding my breath there.

Rebuilding the infrastructure, creating more jobs and making these pathetic proles’s lives better is an obvious answer, but it seems like a truly tall order. (With a ridiculo-octillion dollar deficit, does Barack go for Social Keynesian spending on massive public works? I don’t see it.)

Ted Nugent has already make a not-so veiled threat to kill Obama, but what do you do? He’s an asshole rock star out to keep his name in there among the NASCAR and NRA crowd, so if you respond, you start back in on the Janet Reno-inspired paranoia. And we all know how well THAT went.

Any dippy fuckwad – and there are SCADS of them in Murrrka!…McCain/ Palin kicked ASS in Idaho, Tennessee, Kentucky… – who still believes Obama is an "elite" Muslim who is also a Commie out to take their guns away as a first order of Biz is so far gone, there’s no hope for them ever to learn to THINK again. (Not that these people ever really had a thought in the first place.) I just see Murrrkin (not a "merkin;" I knew what that was, bandito) Idiocy as a major problem, one most liberals in the media don’t really want to talk about in a frank way. And why? (That’s rhetorical.)

I have a good friend, a neo-Marxist sorta anarchist professor. He argues that sure, we have plenty of volk like this in the US, but they’ve ALWAYS been around; you just want to carry them along into a better way of life. Somehow. Yea, hard to disagree with that, but just imagine if some skinhead POS offs Obama. I think then we’ll be FORCED to deal with these worse-than-stupid souls who have been primed by demagogues like Limbaugh for 25+ yrs now.

It would be REALLY ugly, and frankly it’s one of my greatest fears right now.

> [Good point. If I recall correctly, back in the 1980s there was a > popular phrase, "No pain ibogaine." Someone back me up on this.]

> (My damn OE didn’t quote right. What’s up with that?)

> That phrase in quotes googles null, but here’s something close > fromhttp://www.erowid.org/experiences/exp.php?ID=41522:

> "The pain of withdrawal has ceased to bother me and I began to > concentrate on everything around me" > etc.

> I think ibogaine isn’t just an addiction treatment, it might help > petty > dextrohacks like Rush open up to a better universe. ?Never was > addicted > nor used it, just sayin’ from what I pick up.

[RMjon23: Rush and his clones are hopeless; there’s too much of a payoff in remaining the mouthpiece for lumpenprole ressentiment. No drug in the world can cure Terminal Assholism.

I think Limbaugh is a major carrier of the Emotional Plague. If that’s too harsh an assessment, then see Colin Wilson on the Right Man syndrome. Robert Anton Wilson once compared Rush’s followers to the followers of a famous German fascist who averred that "the masses are female." Similarly, Rush’s listeners famously call themselves "Dittoheads." To me, the comparison seems tragically apt. "Female" and "Dittoheads," meaning that they need/want to be pushed around/told what to do/what to think, and one of the most potent ways to do that is by telling them that sure, they’re a bunch of losers, but it’s NOT THEIR FAULT: it’s the fault of "liberals", intellectuals, young people and their music, Hollywood, "do-gooders," environmentalists, feminists, the French, brown people, people who consume food and drink that is associated with the educated class, black people, organized labor, Asians, Muslims, ideas from Big City Folk, etc, etc, etc…anyone BUT the Corporate Fascists whose interests Rush defends. Include in there Savage, Hannity, and about 75 other Rush clones on AM radio.

I think I probably see this as a bigger problem than most of you do. And I don’t have many answers. Obviously, getting the Fairness Doctrine back in wd help, but I’m not holding my breath there.

Rebuilding the infrastructure, creating more jobs and making these pathetic proles’s lives better is an obvious answer, but it seems like a truly tall order. (With a ridiculo-octillion dollar deficit, does Barack go for Social Keynesian spending on massive public works? I don’t see it.)

Ted Nugent has already make a not-so veiled threat to kill Obama, but what do you do? He’s an asshole rock star out to keep his name in there among the NASCAR and NRA crowd, so if you respond, you start back in on the Janet Reno-inspired paranoia. And we all know how well THAT went.

Any dippy fuckwad – and there are SCADS of them in Murrrka!…McCain/ Palin kicked ASS in Idaho, Tennessee, Kentucky… – who still believes Obama is an "elite" Muslim who is also a Commie out to take their guns away as a first order of Biz is so far gone, there’s no hope for them ever to learn to THINK again. (Not that these people ever really had a thought in the first place.) I just see Murrrkin (not a "merkin;" I knew what that was, bandito) Idiocy as a major problem, one most liberals in the media don’t really want to talk about in a frank way. And why? (That’s rhetorical.)

I have a good friend, a neo-Marxist sorta anarchist professor. He argues that sure, we have plenty of volk like this in the US, but they’ve ALWAYS been around; you just want to carry them along into a better way of life. Somehow. Yea, hard to disagree with that, but just imagine if some skinhead POS offs Obama. I think then we’ll be FORCED to deal with these worse-than-stupid souls who have been primed by demagogues like Limbaugh for 25+ yrs now.

It would be REALLY ugly, and frankly it’s one of my greatest fears right now.

[end quoted, damn failure of my OE to quote into > series, again, even tho’ I set it to … ]

Heh, yeah, thanks RMjon23 for the deep and substantive reply. Yep, Rush and his ilk have indeed poisoned the tone of the body/mind politic. They poisoned the logical fiber as well (look for the venerable "Logic and Mr. Limbaugh: A Dittohead’s Guide To Fallacious Reading" by Ray Perkins (in effect, fallacious reasoning but called "reading". Hey, isn’t there a phrase for committing fallacies? Um, "fallacio" or somesuch … I can only hope that Obama’s "magnetism", poise, and intellect will charm most Americans and let him pull us together as we need to be these difficult times (e.g. some friends of mine have lost 100-250k in the stock market lately, "paper losses" but how long to catch up?)

I made up a joke about Rush once around the time he got nabbed for indulging in OC, it can be found at http://www.usenet.com/newsgroups/sci.med.cannabis/msg00058.html. See also many interesting comments. (BTW is it true that archives of the old Usenet threads are in danger?) (Amazing how solicitous and sympathetic the other right-dio hacks were to Rush that time despite their usual attitudes about drugs! REM also Cindy McCain being addicted to and stealing narcotics from her own NP. Well, combine that with Republican proclivities for adultery/affairs/divorce/remarriage (Newt Grinch, Rudi the ghoul, John McCain) and "it makes you scratch your head."

Before I get serious: I put this joke out too late at night (?) on alt.flame.rush-limbaugh etc. for anyone to notice yet, and Google Groups now fascistically limits us to five (!) cross-groups, so here goes for the entertainment and enlightenment of others across the fruited plains:

When Rush talks about his "favorite dope," does he mean:

A. Oxycontin?

or

B. His biggest fan (whoever that might be….you?)

(Actually, it must be "himself!")

Well, to be serious (because this is an opportunity to raise consciousness about these issues, whatever Limbaugh’s opinions are about this and that): Now that one of their own (otherwise, they never care) is indulging, will conservatives quit calling for, and jailing, people involved in the analogous case of sampling medical marijuana? I notice, that’s the new slant by Rush’s right-dio shills: Oh, poor guy, we can feel his pain, and mean Liberals quite picking on the poor guy! Mike Savage blamed doctors for not being willing enough to pass out pain pills to people who want them! We don’t know if Rush really "needs" it anyway, or maybe it’s for those "anal cysts" that let him dodge the Vietnam era draft and become a chickenhawk. (Well, Rush should know, that opiates cause constipation anyway…..) Is there hypocrisy here?

For treatment: it would be cool to put Rush on ibogaine. That might not only cure his pill addiction, it might open his mind to the narrow meanness of his thinking and attitudes.

>> [Good point. If I recall correctly, back in the 1980s there was a >> popular phrase, "No pain ibogaine." Someone back me up on this.]

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PS: The full version of the Rush dope joke, I worked out later went like this:

When Rush talks about his "favorite dope," does he mean:

A. Oxycontin?

B. His biggest fan (whoever that might be….you?)

C. Himself?

D. George W Bush?

I read that call-in to AM 790 WNIS and it got some chuckles from the interesting libertarian host Tony Macrini, who deserves to be national even though liberaloids like me find his governmental minimalism jarring. (But see, he’s honest, like Ron Paul.)